The biggest departure from the main series is how paid companionship is tolerated in Virginia. A minor departure is how both John and Suki casually use recreational drugs. I had to do some thinking to make it possible for people to be coerced into working for others against their real desires. The government came to the rescue on that one, but it is not obvious in the first book.

Also, in this alternate future/history, almost any act people do is recorded and passed around to their friends, creating a virtually 'naked' society.Paperback ISBN is 1451551827 and EAN-13 is 9781451551822